§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report annual statistics since 1979 of local government spending in Grimsby, and the percentage of this spending which was financed by the central Government rate support grant.
§ Mr. ChopeThe information for 1981–82 and later years is as follows:
Total expenditure £ million Rate support grant ax per cent, of total expenditure 1981–82 4.323 91.4 1982–83 4.934 79.9 1983–84 5.210 79.6 1984–85 5.773 72.9 1985–86 5.981 79.4 1986–87 6.328 81.6 1987–88 7.336 70.1 Total expenditure is the measure of local authority expenditure used in the determination of block grant (the main component of rate support grant). It comprises net current expenditure on the rate fund revenue account plus items such as debt charges and revenue contributions to capital and less specific and supple-mentary grants and items such as interest receipts. Estimates of total expenditure prior to 1981–82 are not available.